Support well-regarded international permaculture projects. Funds are forwarded to the projects every three months.Projects supported by the Permaculture Association:Farmers' Alliance for RestorationMarda Permaculture FarmHimalayan Permaculture Centre Farmers' Alliance for Restoration (FAR)FAR is a project of California-based non-profit Empowerment WORKS, and an approved international project of the Permaculture Association (Britain).Because food security and environmental health go hand in hand, our goal is to build expertise in farming communities around the world about practical options for improving yields and livelihoods using ecologically regenerative approaches. FAR is a non-profit program training and supporting family farmers in the design of sustainable food systems, and the benefits of working collaboratively to improve their local economy and environment.We engage with farming communities in a process of self-empowerment to revitalize their local environments and economies. They can restore ecosystems and social systems to achieve eco-social resilience. We partner with existing local permaculture training centers to deliver the programme so we don’t reinvent the wheel. This fast-tracks our services to our farmers as there is no delay in getting up to speed with the community’s language, customs, indigenous crops, climate, and challenges. The training center, as part of the community, selects a group of lead farmers who will receive two years of training and support in transitioning to regenerative agriculture. The farmers themselves co-design the curriculum so that they learn what is most useful and relevant to them. These lead farmers in turn teach their neighbors on these principles and techniques, building a community of practice and cooperation among their neighbors.www.farmers-alliance.org Donate to FAR Marda Permaculture FarmInitiated in 2006 by permaculturist Murad Alkhufash, the Marda Permaculture Farm is a working farm and demonstration site for permaculture principles, techniques and strategies. Based in the community of Marda, the project promotes food security, health, self-reliance and Palestinian empowerment.Through modeling the practicalities of water harvesting and conservation, energy conservation, and home-scale garden production, with readily available and locally-appropriate materials, Marda Permaculture Farm is one of the few innovative production farms of its kind in the West Bank and the Middle East.The Marda Permaculture Farm has developed into a thriving model of permaculture design principles. It models core permaculture techniques and principles including all organic methods, use of plant guilds and food forests, composting, greenhouse, swales to retain water and build soil, integration of orchards with fruit and nut trees, vineyards, chickens, pigeons, bees, and composting.Marda Permaculture Farm Donate to Marda Permaculture Farm Himalayan Permaculture Centre The Himalayan Permaculture Centre (HPC) is a grass roots non-government organisation (NGO) set up in 2010 by trained and motivated farmers from Surkhet district (Mid-Western Nepal) to implement sustainable rural development programs in Nepal.In Nepal, over 90% of the working population are dependent on agriculture for their livelihood. Subsistence agricultural practices have developed to be finely in tune with local climate, landscape and people's needs. Such practices are intimately interwoven with the forest and other natural resources to provide basic needs of food, fuel, fodder, timber, medicines, etc. Nationalisation of the forests, rising population and inappropriate aid programmes, which often try to replace traditional practices with "something better" have combined to undermine the sustainability of traditional agriculture. The result is a disempowered people with unequal access to basic needs, struggling to make ends meet despite working all hours and yet not even able to grow enough food to last the year.HPC carries out demonstration, training, resource production and research on its own resource centres (working farms) in Kathmandu, Surkhet and Humla districts. It also carries out these activities on farmers own land, though the research needs to be risk-free otherwise they may lose valuable food crops/land if experiments don't work! Donate to Himalayan Permaculture Centre Wanting to make a donation to PAB? Donate once Regular donation